Okay. Giving you the 'not a troll' benefit of the doubt for a second.
The problem with this is that you're imagining fanfic writers as a zero sum game. You seem to imagine that if, in this theoretical fantasyworld of yours, it was made more difficult for fanfic writers to write romance fics (by reducing the places where they could post their fic) they'd switch to genfic instead, or that some other kind of switch would take place wherein the amount and quality of genfic would increase in correlation to the decline of shipping fics.
As others have said, your 'solution' to your irritation would solve absolutely nothing. It wouldn't make romance writers suddenly write gen, therefore the amount and quality of the pool would remain exactly the same. It would either make romance writers stop, thus depriving the majority of both outlet and enjoyment, or they'd simply move elsewhere and that would become the big archive and gen would remain marginalized.
Because people already write and create the things they enjoy, and the things they're interested in. If that skews onto one track more than another, then that's just how it is.
Gen isn't marginalized because of shipping. Gen is marginalized because fewer people enjoy reading and writing it. Blaming shipping or romance for that is ludicrous. Blaming the people who write and enjoy shipping and romance is just you being bitter.
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The problem with this is that you're imagining fanfic writers as a zero sum game. You seem to imagine that if, in this theoretical fantasyworld of yours, it was made more difficult for fanfic writers to write romance fics (by reducing the places where they could post their fic) they'd switch to genfic instead, or that some other kind of switch would take place wherein the amount and quality of genfic would increase in correlation to the decline of shipping fics.
As others have said, your 'solution' to your irritation would solve absolutely nothing. It wouldn't make romance writers suddenly write gen, therefore the amount and quality of the pool would remain exactly the same. It would either make romance writers stop, thus depriving the majority of both outlet and enjoyment, or they'd simply move elsewhere and that would become the big archive and gen would remain marginalized.
Because people already write and create the things they enjoy, and the things they're interested in. If that skews onto one track more than another, then that's just how it is.
Gen isn't marginalized because of shipping. Gen is marginalized because fewer people enjoy reading and writing it. Blaming shipping or romance for that is ludicrous. Blaming the people who write and enjoy shipping and romance is just you being bitter.